Stingray leather

I remember the Corvette Stingray. It's a very fast and fancy car back then.
Okay, we're talking about the stingray, the fish, not the car.

Stingrays are basically bottom feeders; feeding at the bottom of the sea.
And they like to live where the water is warm. That's why you'll find most
of them in tropical waters.

The leather is something very remarkable. We had personal experience seeing
and handling two types of stingray hide. The one that has gone through the
tanning process before being dyed/polished and the other ready for making
leather products. The raw leather hide has this small pebble like things
on the surface and along the middle there are sharp spines. They felt hard
like high-grade plastic and are sharp. What's remarkable is that it occurs
naturally! The polished leather is, ... beautiful. Really very beautiful.

Generally not, unless stepped on. Then their
tail injects a highly painfull toxin into your leg. The shooting pain
will remain for the next hours, and then give away, though you will still
feel it for the next two days. It (almost) never kills a human.

Afraid of humans?

Not much, but they will rather swim away than let you
touch them

People injured yearly

Cases of injury are very rare. We have no available information.

People killed yearly
by

It is somewhat unlikely that a person will
get killed by a stingray.

Is meat edible?

Yes. Stingray are couught for they meat,
and leather is only a by-product

Taste of meat

Very good. It's a delicacy served in many fancy restaurants
across Asia.

Living habits:

They live in shallow, tropical waters, usually keeping
to the bottom parts. You are likely to find them lying on a seabed. They
are often burried and covered with sand with only their eyes visible.
They can move very rapidly when threatened or in pursuit of a passing
fish. They usually live "alone".

Eating habits:

They eat squid, fish and crabs. They can't see their prey
(their eyes are on the top) so they depend on electroreceptors and their
keen senses of smell and touch.

Farming style:

They are catched only in the wild, not farmed.

Harversting weight
and size:

There are no specifics of the catch on stingray,
so suffice to say, it varies from catch to catch.

Skin processing:

The flesh is removed. Then it is washed from
blood, dirt, etc. Then it goes through the same tanning process similar
to fish leather.

Leather durability:

The natural color is dark green, very durable.

Leather softness:

Not soft; hard and tough

Other Leather features:

It has small pebble-like objects, the spine
is polished and dyed to give accent.